Improvement in harvesters



G. W. N. YST.

Harvesters.

Patented April 15, 1873.

" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

GEORGE W. N. YOST, OF CORRY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO ACME MOWER AND REAPEE COMPANY,77 OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT 4IN HRVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,815, dated April 15, 1873; application led September 23, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. N. YOsT, of Corry, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Mowing and Reaping Machine, which I call the Acme,7 of which the following is a specilication:

The nature of that part of the invention included in this division, and to which the application for a patent therefor is confined, is an improved bush-holder, made by combining a bush-holdin g sleeve with an oiling-eup.

The accompanying drawing and the following description thereof fully illust-rate the p art of the invention included in this division.

Of the drawing, Figure l represents a view of my improved mowing-machine. Fig. 2 represents a sectional view, lengthwise, from the side through the middleof an inclosing-box main frame, with a bush-holder therein. Fig. 3 represents a side view of a bush-holding sleeve with bushes in the ends, and with oilcups screwed in the top. Fig. 4 represents an end view ot' a bush-holding sleeve with a bush therein, and Fig. 5 represents a view of an oil-cup.

The following is the description: A represents a main axle of a mowing or reaping ma chine. B represents a drivin g-wheel on each end of the main axle A. C represents an inclosing-box main frame hinged on the main axle A between the driving-wheels B. a rep resents a neck or one end ot' the main frame- O. b represents a hole, lengthwise, through the neck or end of the main frame (l. D represents a long sleeve or tube loosely in the hole b of the end of the :main frame O, so that it can be putin and taken out with the fingers. c represents recesses or steps in the upper side of the bush-holding sleeve D. E represents an oil-cup in the top of the neck or end a of the main frame O, and extended down through and into the recesses c of the sleeve D. cl represents a screw-stem of the oil-cup E, which is screwed into a screw-hole in the end a of the main frame O, by which the cup is held tightly within the main frame. e represents a small hole from the chamber or bowl of the oil-cup E, down through the stein d of the cup, meeting a corresponding hole opening into the tube ofthe sleeve D, through which oil can liow from the oil-cup onto an axle within the sleeve. F represents a journal-bearing bush in each end of the bush-hold ing sleeve D. p

The sleeve D, being loosely within the hole b ot' the main frame O, can be taken out and put back easily when the crank-wheel is removed to repair or replace a journal-bush, F, and when within the frame the sleeve is held firmly, both from turning in a revolving direction and from moving endwise, by the stem d of the oil-cup E set within theA step c of the sleeve. The oil-cup serves to convey oil to the journal of the crank-wheel axlewithin the bushes of the sleeve, and also serves to hold the sleeve from moving either endwise or on its axis.

The following is a summary of that part of the invention included in this division:V

I claim- The combination of an oil-cu-p with the main frame and the journal-bearing sleeve of mowing or reaping machine, substantially as and for the purpose described.

G. W. N. YOST.

Witnesses:

CnAs. BIRD, J AMEs DENsMoRE. 

